Melissa Hilliard Potter 801 S Plymouth Court [email protected] #1011 Chicago, IL 60605 929.247.5667 Genderassignment.Tumblr.Com
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Melissa Hilliard Potter 801 S Plymouth Court [email protected] #1011 Chicago, IL 60605 www.melpotter.com 929.247.5667 genderassignment.tumblr.com Education 1997 M.F.A. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ 1992 B.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, VA Grants/Awards 2018 Agri/Cultures.Seed-Links. Conserving Cultural Connections with Seeds. Svalbard, Norway Illuminated Seed Bank Book permanent internment installation in the Global Seed Vault mountain 2018 3Arts Projects Program. Chicago, IL Match funding for Illuminated Seed Bank Book with Maggie Puckett Faculty Development Grant. Columbia College Chicago Exhibition at Compound Yellow Gallery 2017 Infusion Inclusion Initiative. Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, VA Like Other Girls Do: Gender as Duty, Performance and Freedom 2016 Nathan Cummings Foundation / Jane M. Saks. New York, NY Funding for Revolution at Point Zero project with Neysa Page-Lieberman MAKER Grant. Chicago Artist’s Coalition and Other People’s Pixels. Chicago, IL Seeds InService with Maggie Puckett 2015 Faculty Development Grant. Columbia College Chicago Sabbatical research support One-Year Sabbatical. Columbia College Chicago Ethnographic research in London, England, and Fulbright in Sarajevo, Bosnia 2014 Fulbright Traditional Scholars Program. Sarajevo, Bosnia Interdisciplinary Collaborations with Hand Papermaking 2013 Craft Research Fund. The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design Funding for the exhibition, Social Paper Co-curated with Jessica Cochran Luminaria. City of San Antonio Honorarium. San Antonio, TX 2012 Clinton Hill Curatorial Grant. New York, NY Funding for the exhibition, Social Paper Soros Grant for Arts & Culture. Open Society, Budapest, Hungary Project funding for Crafting Women’s Stories: Lives in Georgian Felt: co-author, principal investigator Faculty Development Grant. Columbia College Chicago Handmade Media with Paul Catanese 2010 Serbian Ministry of Culture. Belgrade, Serbia Funding for the film,Like Other Girls Do 2009 Faculty Development Grant. Columbia College, Chicago Funding for the film,Like Other Girls Do 1 2008 Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. Belgrade, Serbia Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade and Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade 2006 Fulbright Traditional Scholars Program. Belgrade, Serbia The Art of Hand Papermaking and Its Applications in Serbia Rockefeller Brothers Fund. New York, NY Funding for Choros International Projects, Belgrade, Serbia: co-author, principal investigator 2003 Trust for Mutual Understanding. New York, NY Project funding for University of Belgrade and Lower East Side Print Shop teaching collaboration: co-author, principal investigator 2000 ArtsLink Collaborative Projects. New York, NY Support for research with Faculty of Fine Arts professor Biljana Vuković and collaboration with Group Škart in Belgrade, Serbia 1998 Artists in the Marketplace Program. Bronx Museum of the Arts. Bronx, NY Residencies 2011 Fundacion de Studio Avanados. Caracas, Venezuela Book/print/paper collaboration with Venezuelan cultural workers including Luis Romero, Suwon Lee and Tahia Rivero 2010 Studenica Residency. Studenica, Serbia Artist Residency 2004 International Fine Arts Assembly. Visegrad, Bosnia Artist Residency Featured Exhibitions 2019 Love All Potatoes. The Franklin. Chicago, IL with Jim Duignan and Claire Pentecost Curated by Edra Soto 2018 The Lucy Flowers Self-Reliance Garden. Compound Yellow Gallery, Oak Park, IL Curated by Laura Shaeffer and Lora Lode 2017 Pleasure Garden. Terrain Biennial. Chicago, IL Curated by Lise McKean 2015 Gendered Journeys: Art & Activism of Melissa Potter and Miriam Schaer. Tower Fine Arts Gallery, The College at Brockport. Brockport, NY Curated by Kitty Hubbard 2014 Like Other Girls Do. Freedman Gallery, Albright College. Reading, PA Curated by Erin Riley Lopez 2012 Five x Five. Terrain Exhibitions, Oak Park, Il Collaboration with Mat Rappaport Curated by Sabina Ott 2010 New Works by Melissa Potter. Galerija Zvono. Belgrade, Serbia Group Exhibitions 2019 The Alchemy of Paper. Herron Galleries, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, IN Art, Grief, and the Land. Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA Curated by Patricia Miranda Feast and Famine. Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ Curated by Anonda Bell 2018 Gold. Aspect Ratio Gallery, Chicago, IL 2 Curated by Jefferson Goddard 2017 Cryin’ Out Loud. Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Curated by Micol Hebron Chicago on My Mind: Selections from Private Chicago Collections. Art + Public Life at University of Chicago Curated by Sabina Ott 2016 Taking Shapes. Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Curated by Kara Cobb Johnson Invisible Makers. Gardner’s Art Through The Ages book commission in response to Mastry, by Kerry James Marshall @ MCA. Chicago, IL Curated by Ann Meisinger and Rose May Art Papers Intervention: Seeds InService. Art Papers Magazine. July-August 2016 issue. Homeland: Chicago & Belgrade Diasporas. public art billboard installation Collaboration with Mat Rappaport. Chicago IL He, She, Ze. Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL Curated by Anna Rathman 2015 Embraced: The International Community. Center for Book Arts, New York, NY Curated by Richard Minsky Practical Work. The String Room Gallery. Wells College, Aurora, NY The People’s Pamphlets. Printer’s Ball, Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL Curated by Jessica Cochran 2014 Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, Oklahoma Curated by Sharon Louden Divisions of Labor. Glass Curtain Gallery, Curated by Christa Donner and Thea Liberty Nichols Psyched. Haber Space at Central Booking. NYC Curated by Maddy Rosenberg Re-imagining Paper and Fiber. University of Hawai’i Hilo, Hilo, HI Curated by Michael Marshall Why Marriage? David Darst Center, Chicago, IL Curated by Jessica Cochran Exuberant Politics. Public Space One, Iowa City, IA. Curated by “Exubernauts,” University of Iowa Soft Drugs. Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL Curated by Theresa DeSilva Homeland: Chicago and Belgrade Diaspora. Collaboration with Mat Rappaport Featured in Koshka Number 4 “The Midwest Issue” Included in the exhibition A Proximity of Conciousness: Art and Social Action Curated by Temporary Services @ School of the Art Institute in Chicago 2013 Unspecified Object. Scuola di Grafica, Venice, Italy Curated by Barbara Madsen Construction. A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago Curated by Sabina Ott Luminaria. Mexican Cultural Institute. San Antonio, TX Curated by the Mexican Cultural Institute of San Antonio and the Southwest School of Art 2012 Feminism and the Artist’s Book. Central Booking @ Vespa, Brooklyn, NY Curated by Maddy Rosenberg ArtFem.TV. Elles Tournent Film Festival. Brussels, Belgium Curated by Evelin Stermitz In the Hot Seat. Proximity Gallery. Cleveland, Ohio Curated by John Risseuw Field Projects #4. Field Projects. NYC Curated by David Terry Serbo-American Cookbook. Akademija Galerija. Belgrade, Serbia 2011 Bloodlines: An Evening of Performance & Video. Craftswoman House, Pasadena, CA Curated by Launa Bacon and Cindy Rehm Gender Assignment. University of Rochester, The Gallery at the Art and Music Library, Rochester, NY Pore Awë. G (18) Centro De Artes Los Galpones, Caracas, Venezuela Curated by Tahia Rivero Generos: Repensando los Roles. Animasivo Festival. El Chopo University Museum, Mexico City, Mexico conference presentation moderated by Grace Quintanilla Art364B. Nanomajority: A Quarterly Journal of Writing, Inquiry, Art: www.nanomajority.com 2010 Infrastructures and Territories. VersionFest 2010. Chicago, IL 3 Curated by Ed Marczewski New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century. Detroit MONA, Detroit, MI Curated by Jonathan Lillie Featured Artist. Museo de Mujeres: www.museodemujeres.com Curated by Lucero Gonzalez 2009 Balkan Aphorisms on Women. Akademija Center for Graphic Art and Visual Research. Belgrade, Serbia ArcheTime. The Tank, NYC Curated by Olga Ost Ovulation and Pregnancy. International Museum of Women: www.imow.org 2008 Live with It. Photo West Gallery. Philadelphia, PA Art364B: The Collective. New York University Kimmel Center Gallery. New York, NY Curated by Jovana Stokic 2007 Oktopus. Student Cultural Center. Belgrade, Serbia Curated by Maja Simic eFEMera: The Art of Feminist Activism. Binghamton University Museum. Binghamton, NY Curated by Aruna D’Sousa Welcome Back Show. Mason Gross Galleries. New Brunswick, NJ refuse/refuse. Pochron Studios. Brooklyn, NY 2006 From the Inside Out. St. John’s University. NYC Curated by Claudia Sbrissa 2005 8 x 8. CULUJ Gallery. Belgrade, Serbia Curated by Maja Simic The True Mirror: Contemporary Identity in Art. City Without Walls. Newark, NJ Curated by John Daquino 2004 The Wedding Project. 65 Hope Street Gallery. Williamsburg, Brooklyn Curated by Jennifer Musawwir and Melissa Potter Eat Me. 65 Hope Street Gallery. Williamsburg, Brooklyn Curated by Jennifer Musawwir 2002 Regarding Gloria. White Columns. NYC Curated by Lauren Ross and Catherine Morris 2001 Through the Looking Glass: Feminism and Pop Culture. SUNY New Paltz. New Paltz, NY Curated by Loretta Lorance 2000 Paper Trail. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ Curated by Gail Deery Good Business is the Best Art. Bronx Museum of the Arts. Bronx, NY Whodunnit? performance and poster project on the streets of Belgrade, Serbia with Group Škart Traveling Exhibitions Pulped Under Pressure. Co-curated by Reni Gower and Melissa Potter 2020 The Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI 2019 The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, & Art,